lupanar
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lupānar, from lupa (“prostitute”, literally “she-wolf”), from lupus (“wolf”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lupanar (plural lupanars)
- (formal, archaic) A brothel.
- 1920, Aldous Huxley, “From the Pillar”, in Leda[1], New York: George H. Doran:
- The steam of fetid vices / From a thousand lupanars, / Like smoke of sacrifices, / Reeked up to the heedless stars.
- 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 33:
- A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar.
Related terms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lupanar m (plural lupanars)
- (dated or literary) a brothel
- 1895, R. von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis:
- Devenu étudiant à l’Université, je visitai un lupanar et je réussis le coït sans effort.
- Having become a student at university, I visited a brothel and easily managed to have intercourse.
- 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 73:
- Ce soir tu as décidé de retourner au Bar Biturique, ton lupanar favori. Les maisons closes sont supposées être interdites en France ; pourtant, rien qu’à Paris, on en dénombre une bonne cinquantaine.
- Tonight you've decided to go back to the Bar Biturique, your favourite house of ill repute. Brothels are supposed to be banned in France, but in Paris alone there are a good fifty of them.
Further reading edit
- “lupanar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Apocope of earlier *lupānāre, a neuter relative adjective equivalent to lupa (“a she-wolf → prostitute”) + -ānus + -āris (both relative adjective suffixes).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /luˈpaː.naːr/, [ɫ̪ʊˈpäːnäːr] or IPA(key): /luˈpaː.nar/, [ɫ̪ʊˈpäːnär]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /luˈpa.nar/, [luˈpäːnär]
- Note: the last vowel shortened around the time of Terence.
Noun edit
lupānar n (genitive lupānāris); third declension
- a brothel, whore-house
- Synonym: (Late Latin) prōstibulum
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | lupānar | lupānāria |
Genitive | lupānāris | lupānārium |
Dative | lupānārī | lupānāribus |
Accusative | lupānar | lupānāria |
Ablative | lupānārī | lupānāribus |
Vocative | lupānar | lupānāria |
Descendants edit
- → English: lupanar
- → French: lupanar
- → Italian: lupanare
- → Polish: lupanar
- → Portuguese: lupanar
- → Romanian: lupanar
- → Spanish: lupanar
References edit
- “lŭpānar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lupanar”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lupanar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “lupanar”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “lupanar”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lupanar m inan
- (archaic) brothel
- Synonyms: agencja towarzyska, burdel, dom publiczny, zamtuz
Declension edit
Declension of lupanar
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | lupanar | lupanary |
genitive | lupanaru | lupanarów |
dative | lupanarowi | lupanarom |
accusative | lupanar | lupanary |
instrumental | lupanarem | lupanarami |
locative | lupanarze | lupanarach |
vocative | lupanarze | lupanary |
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin lupānārem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lupanar m (plural lupanares)
- brothel (house of prostitution)
- Synonyms: bordel, prostíbulo
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French lupanar, from Latin lupanar.
Noun edit
lupanar n (plural lupanare)
Declension edit
Declension of lupanar
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) lupanar | lupanarul | (niște) lupanare | lupanarele |
genitive/dative | (unui) lupanar | lupanarului | (unor) lupanare | lupanarelor |
vocative | lupanarule | lupanarelor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lupanar m (plural lupanares)
- brothel
- Synonyms: burdel, casa de citas, mancebía, prostíbulo, puticlub
Further reading edit
- “lupanar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014